Under President Donald Trump, protections for people receiving services from faith-based groups are being eliminated. Trump’s administration has proposed a series of rules governing faith-based programs in several federal agencies, and protections for those who need the services are stripped away.

The first National Prayer Breakfast was held in 1953, during a time when “civil religion” was on the upswing in America. President Dwight D. Eisenhower attended, and since then, every U.S. president has been at the event and usually speaks.

Americans United believes that our laws and public policies should promote equal treatment, decency and dignity for everyone and that religion should never be an excuse to undermine these laws to cause harm or result in discrimination.